@TheStalwart Everyone is overly nostalgic about their teenage years, except people who were teens from 1995-2000, the actual best time to be alive in America.
Funniest shit ever is how Mamdani balanced the budget by raiding public pension funds and increasing ambulance fees and progressives were like “Greatest statesman of all time. Thank God he’s not a neoliberal”
This is where your DSA problem is coming from, right here. It's all people who grew up upper middle class, or who inserted themselves into a traditionally upper middle class milieu, and then found out that no one wants to pay them $150k to hear them spout off Critical Theory.
Partially true but to over index on it is cope: if they made $250k, they would not pine for Gulliani/Bloomberg
Life is relative. Values systems exist in contrast the Other
Progressivism is the fusion of seething upward resentment AND embarrassment of relative good fortune
Income and education are usually positively correlated. But sometimes the relationship breaks down. What's the most Democratic voting group in America? People with post-graduate degrees but lower-to-middle incomes.
Over the last 6 months we’ve had a big push for CoPilot & the result has been: *huge* increases in production…of stuff I’m never gonna read
Getting memos *obviously* written by AI (format & content) makes me actively despise the person. Maybe a “me” problem but (1/2)
Young counter-cultural types who would have started bands in the 2000s started podcasts in the 2010s, and now youngish Millennials seek community through politics instead of music and it's a disaster for the broad American left.
The middle class actually isn't falling behind, they're getting ahead. But everyone thinks they're falling behind because they're constantly interacting with super-rich people online, and seeing rich people's lifestyles on Instagram.
Anti-Americanism has become the normal, consensus view among partisan Democrats in America, and this is very bad. We need to turn this around, and "just elect Democrats to the White House" is not a permanent solution to the problem.
England’s seaside towns are thriving again after decades of decline. But as wealth, tourism and new residents pour in, many locals are finding themselves priced out of the revival. https://t.co/CPJHXHEhSu
Not to be too meta but: the human exp is just endless quests to activate dopamine releases
Our digital age is cursed b/c our hand-held rectangle of Ba’al is a release shortcut
The broad psychosis you see in ppl today is ppl effectively staggering out of digital opium dens
I don’t think people have fully absorbed just how big the declines in student enrollment are going to be.
Eight states are projected to experience DOUBLE DIGIT declines by 2031.